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1) Firegirl
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
A middle school boy's life is changed when Jessica, a girl disfigured by burns, starts attending his Catholic school while receiving treatment at a local hospital.
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Series
DC icons volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
"Selina Kyle's coming-of-age-story as she claws her way to the top of Gotham City's criminal underbelly and becomes Catwoman"--
3) Shirley
Author
Language
English
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Description
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within as on the state of things without and around us.' Considered one of her less well-known novels, Shirley is Charlotte Brontë's only historical work, set during the Napoleonic Wars. Wealthy and independent, Shirley is very different from her friend Caroline who has few...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
1020L
Language
English
Description
"Life was better in the old days. Or was it? That's the question Greg Heffley is asking as his town voluntarily unplugs and goes electronics-free. But modern life has its conveniences, and Greg isn't cut out for an old-fashioned world. With tension building inside and outside the Heffley home, will Greg find a way to survive?"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 34
Language
English
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Description
Burdened with the dark, dangerous, and seemingly impossible task of locating and destroying Voldermort's remaining Horcruxes, Harry, feeling alone and uncertain about his future, struggles to find the inner strength he needs to follow the path set out before him.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Lily made her dad an important promise before he passed away; that she would...speak her mind at least five times. But speaking up one time, let alone five, is easier said than done. It'll be even harder now that Lily must attend public school for the first time. Fortunately, she meets curling-obsessed Hobart and quiet Dunya at the beginning of sixth grade...But when Lily and her friends are bullied by Ryan and his mean clique, she quickly discovers...
9) Just Patty
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Patty and her two best friends Conny and Priscilla are appalled when they find out they've been separated as roommates for their senior year at Saint Ursula's boarding school. Patty will not let it stand and the girls come up with schemes to go back to rooming with one another. The book follows Conny, Priscilla, Patty and their schoolmates (but mostly Patty) through their senior year. It's a series of vignettes about friendship, mischief and growing...
10) The great Gatsby
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Adult - American Classics
Adult - Author Birthday's List
Adult - Banned Books
Adult - Staff Picks Fiction
Adult - Author Birthday's List
Adult - Banned Books
Adult - Staff Picks Fiction
Description
On Long Island in the early 1920s the mysterious Jay Gatsby tries to rekindle his romance with Daisy, a young woman who has married another man.
11) Shutterspeed
Author
Language
English
Description
Living alone with his silent father and the shadow cast by his long-dead mother, Dustin waits, wanting only to slip under the radar and survive what's left of high school and through his work at the photo lab. Then one Sunday, a single photo gets stuck in the processor and it changes everything: the bike in the picture is decent-a Ducati Monster 620, cherry red-and the woman, Terri Pavish, beside it is striking too. What begins then as an innocent...
12) The Boy Patriot
Author
Language
English
Description
"The Boy Patriot" by Edward Sylvester Ellis. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks...
13) Agnes Grey
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Language
English
Description
Written when women-and workers generally-had few rights in England, Agnes Grey exposes the brutal inequities of the rigid class system in mid-nineteenth century Britain. Agnes comes from a respectable middle-class family, but their financial reverses have forced her to seek work as a governess. Pampered and protected at home, she is unprepared for the harsh reality of a governess's life. At the Bloomfields and later the Murrays, she suffers under...
Author
Language
English
Description
Bate's writing is smart and compelling." --Publishers Weekly From the acclaimed author of The Girls' Guide to Love and Supper Clubs comes a witty, honest novel, perfectly seasoned with both humor and heart, about daring to bite into the life you really want. . . Sydney Strauss is obsessed with food. Not with eating it-though she does that too-but with writing about the wonders of the gastronomic world, from obscure fruit hybrids to organic farming...
15) Moonfleet
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Language
English
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Moonfleet (1898) is an adventure novel by J. Meade Falkner. Largely forgotten by today's readers, Falkner was more widely known in his lifetime for his nonfiction works on history and topography, as well as his role as chairman of a major arms manufacturer. Far from the amateur musings of a bored millionaire, Falkner's writing shows a mastery of genre fiction while benefitting from his extensive geographical knowledge. Moonfleet has been adapted several...
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Series
Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 16
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
The hit series is back, to charm and inspire another generation of baby-sitters
Jessi knows a secret language! She learned it from Matt Braddock, the BSC's newest charge. Matt's been deaf since birth, and he uses sign language to speak. Since Jessi is Matt's baby-sitter, she's been using sign language, too.Soon all the kids in Stoneybrook want to learn to sign . . . which keeps the Baby-sitters busy. Jessi's the busiest of all: she working on another...
17) Penrod
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Series
Language
English
Description
"The story of tomboy Penrode Scofield was written more than a hundred years ago. But it is still enjoyed with pleasure by children and their parents in many countries of the world. After all, this boy from the American heartland can turn every day - on a holiday, and the most boring things - in an exciting adventure. The story "Adventures of Penrod" first saw the light in 1914 and was a huge success. Its author is the famous American writer Newton...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
470L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Livvy and Jayden are the stars of their school's robotics team. Livvy is especially enthusiastic because her own mother works in a robotics lab and experiments with Artificial Intelligence. To impress her mom, Livvy and Jayden build a robot. Livvy wants to name their robot Francine, but Jayden thinks that's too silly for their creation. Desperate to win, Livvy and Jayden borrow an Artificial Intelligence module. They soon realize they've made a terrible...
20) Oliver Twist
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.3 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
Description
Deals with the adventures of a young orphan boy trying to survive amid greed and poverty in 19th-century London.
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